Quotes About Science

I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got older, I learned that space exploration was real. I wanted to get involved in that. I knew I wanted to be a scientist.

When it comes to the things that people really want in science fiction - like space travel - the simplest things end up causing them not to happen. Humans are 100-pound bags of water, built to live on Earth.

I think every time we send a spacecraft to an asteroid or comet, we learn more.

I think that, a lot of times, people have this idea that the solar system is entirely explored, that we have sent spacecraft to every planet, we've taken beautiful pictures of everything, and that it's kind of done.

It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

The space program is a peaceful project. The next door is opening. We have to go farther into space. But, before that, we need to develop far more improved nutrition and more advanced spacecraft.

Some scientists think it may be possible to capture a wormhole and enlarge it many trillions of times to make it big enough for a human or even a spaceship to enter.

Who doesn't want to fly around in a spaceship?

Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars.

The really basic stuff that fuels 30-year job booms almost always comes from government research, stuff like biotech, the transistor, the Internet. The idea that private capital can handle the early spade work is a joke.

Lisa, love is magical, " Rema said. "Scientists give such simplified explanations for it, and they're wrong, because love isn't something that happens in your brain. Love happens in your soul.

Science teaches to think but love teaches to smile.

We make art to feel life. We do science to understand it.

Without passion, the earth will be full of hollow bodies devoid of love, relationship, religion, art, science and technology

It's all biology. If it weren't for two thousand years of the Christian tradition we wouldn't think of pretending otherwise…Romance is the true opiate of the masses.

far as science has been able to determine, the entire universe consists of but two elements—matter and energy. Through

The next great scientific discovery will be the fact, which already exists, that every human brain is both a broadcasting and a receiving station; that every thought vibration released by the brain may be picked up and interpreted by all other brains that are in harmony, or in "tune" with the rate of vibration of the broadcasting brain.

Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all "miracles," and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure! Faith is the element, the "chemical" which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.

Edison concentrated upon the work of harmonizing natural laws

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.